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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-08-11
The MarveIs OF Mud.

never tire of examining through
the microscope some bit of ocean mud.
for in it am constantly finding some
remarkable form of shell. They are
often spined, sometimes they are as
smooth and polished as the best glazed
chinaware; at times they are pure
white. then again they are banded and
striped with every hue of the RAINBOW.
1t seems a pity that such beauties
should be so small and hidden so far
from the eyes of men. On this great
bed of mud the most remarkable erea-
lures live in vast numbers. There are
serpent like star fishes, beautiful
branching corals, ugly black fishes,
pure white ''sea cucumbers:" bright
pink, purple and red sea anemones,
and host of other creatures. The
fishes are always strange and uncouth,
with huge mouths and stomachs all in
one, but with the tail hardly notice
able. When the fishes are brought to
the surface their air bladders and
stomachs protrude from their mouths.
their eyes bulge out, and the blood is
forced through the skin. Life has
been crushed out of them by the sud.
den change of pressure, the gases
within having burst the tissues and
body walls asunder. The tremendous
pressure of the water was we'll shown
by lowering an empty bottle. which
was crushed to atoms.-Hargord Cour-
H1af
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-08-11
Literature for Bo,

No. oh no; we are not going u
into the scent blood and thunder q -
elette; not right directly, at any rate
We were just looking over a story in
the July number of most excellent
and highly respectable Juvenile maga-i
zine; good magazine. that doubtless
views with alarm. as do all the rest oe
us, the poisonous literature of the news
stand. This story is about boy, Is
years old, who. while standing alone
on his fathers engine, on lonely sid
ing, saw runaway train of cars.
started by the wind, sweep past him
down the grade. Usual thing-the
lightning express nearly due; the train
dispatcher always manages to have
alightning a express about due when any
thing of this kind happens. There is
''no telegraph wire either;" this is also
usual; road without wire is apt to
run lightning expresses and limited
trains every fifteen minutes. The boy
thinks quickly; boys of Is are always
quick thinkers; he runs his engine out
on the main line, setting the switches
for himself. for his father has gone to
supper, miles AWAY in the country,
presumably, as it is quite customary
for railway engineers to take all their
meals on distant ranches, leaving their
engines in charge of children. The
runaway cars .'are miles away" and
he has ''less than an hour" to catch
them. He caught the runaways, which
were flying like the wind; he slowed
up with excellent Judgment
should think so-crept along the side
of his flying engine, got on the pilot,
lifted the coupling bar with one hand"
and reached over as he made the,
coupling and dropped the pin in with
the other" had a struggle with the
flying cars but at last checked them;
got them started back, he making
thirty-five miles an hour and the
Lightning in sight making sixty
on road without wire. He had ten,
miles to run in this shape, but he made
it, got in on the siding, in time to turn
the switch, and the lightning" thun-
dered by. Then '.the boy tainted dead
away" No wonder; it was enough
to make man faint to read it; it was
high time somebody tainted. Now,
the question in Just this: Does the boy
get anything better out of such nom
sense than he does out of kid the
Sleuth Hound, or, the Boy Terror of
Cory Canyon?" Between ourselves
and the comma, we really find The.
Boy Terror" quite as easy to believe
and much more interesting reading.
We haven't the least objection to fic-
ton; we rather like it, but great scot,
even fiction for boys should have some
sense in it. Not much, perhaps, but
just some.-Burdette, iu brooklyn EG-
ole.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-08-11
r-e rnree Great posmatlsts.

1t is one of the regrets of my life
that never saw or heard Carlyle.
Nature, who seems to be fond of trios,
has given us three dOgmatists, all of
whom greatly interested their own
generation, and whose personality, es-
pecially in the case of the first and the
last of the trio, still interests us
johnson, Coleridge and Carlyle. Each
was an oracle in his way, but unfOr-
thRately oracles are fallible to their
| descendants. The author of Taxa
ton no Tyranny" had wholesale opin-
ions, and pretty harsh ones, about us
Americans, and did not soften them
in expression: "Sir, they are race
of convicts, and ought to be thankful
for anything we allow them short of
hanging" We smile complacently
when we read this Outburst, which Mr..
Croker calls in question, but which
agrees with his saying in the presence
of Miss Seward, 81 am willing to
love all mankind except an american.
A generation later comes along Cole
| ridge, with his circle of reverential
listeners. He says of johnson that his
fame rests principally upon Boswell,
and that Ibis 6oso-UoD manner must
have had good deal to do with the
effect produced" As to CoIsridge
himself, his contemporaries hardly
know how to set bounds to their exalta-
ton of his genius. Dibdin comes pretty
near going into rhetorical Mysteries in
reporting conversation of Coleridge's
which he listened to: ''Tne auditors
seemed to be wrapt in wonder and de-
light, as one observation more pro-
| found, or clothed in more forcible lam
| guage, than another fell from his
| tongue. As retired homeward 1
thought second johnson had visited
the earth to make wise the sons of
| men," And De Quincy speaks of him
| as 1.-The largest and most, spacious in
tellect, the subtlest and most compre-
hensiye, in my judgment, that has yet
existed amongst men" One is some
times tempted to wish that the super
lative could be abolished, or its use
allowed only to old experts. What are
men to do when they get to heaven,
| after having exhausted their vocabu-
larry of admiration on eartha
Now let us come down to CARLYLE,
and see what he says of Coleridge
We need not take those conversational
utterances which called down the
wrath of Mr.. Swinburne, and found
expression in an epigram which viO-
lates all the proprieties of literary lam
guage. Look at the full-length por-
trait in the Life of Sterling Each or
acle denies his predecessor, each ma
gician breaks the wand of the one who
went before him. There were Ameri-
cans enough ready to swear by Car
lyle until he broke his staff in med
tdling with our anti-slavery conflict,
and buried it so many fathoms deep
that it could never be fished out again.
1t is rather singular that johnson and
Carlyle should each of them have ship
wrecked his sagacity and shown ter
rible leak in his moral sensibilities on
coming in contact with American
rocks and currents, with which neith-
er had any special occasion to concern
himself. and which both had a great
deal better have steered clear Of
OIsVer Wendell Holmes in Atlantic.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-08-11
Some Amusing RetOrts.

A Judge, whose personal appearance
was as unprepossessing as his intellect
was keen and his judgment fair, asked
a young lady noted for her sharp wit
what she meant by the term '.hum-
hug" well, my lord, replied the
lady, angry at the interruption, Il
hardly know how to explain It; but If
a young lady called your lordship a
handsome man, she would be humbug-
ging you"
Even sharper was the epigrammatic
reply of a young lady to an old admirer,
who, having found her glove, returned
it to her with the following distich:
II from your glove you take the letter g
Your glove Is love, which devote to thee
The old gentleman's name was Pagei
and he received the following unex-
pected answer, which chagrined him
so much that he left the place.
II from your Page you take the letter. P
Your Page 10 age, and that won't @ tor ~
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-08-11
Making scented Extracts.

POmades are the commercial vehicle
for absorbing and eSansporting the
perfumes of the jonquil, tuberose, and
few other species of flowers. A
square frame, or chassis, of white wood.
and about twenty inches by thirty
inches in size, is set with pane OF
strong plate-glass. On each side OF
the glass is spread thin, even layer Of
grease, which has been purified and re-
fined. Thus prepared, the frames are
piled up in ranks six or seven feet
high, to await the season of each
! special flower When the blossoms
arrive the petals are picked from the
stem-the pistils and stamens being
discarded-and laid so as to cover the
| grease in each frame. These being
again piled so as to rest upon their
wooden edges, which fit closely to-
| gether, there is formed series of tight
| chambers, the floors and ceilings OF
which are of grease, exposed to the
perfume of the flower leaves within.
The grease absorbs the perfume, the
spent flowers are removed daily, and
fresh ones supplied, and PROCESS
| gOcs OH from Two to four or hve
months, according to- the desired
strength of the pomade, which, when
sufficiently charged with perfume, is
taken from the glass with wide thin
spatula, and packed in tin cans for ex-
port. BY these methods the delicate
odors of flowers are extracted and re-
tanned for transport to distant markets,
where, being treated with alcohol, they
yield their perfume to that stronger
vehicle, and produce the floral waters
and extracts of commerce. Coarser
| dol hf,il thaA Arxx
in the grease and subjecting the residue
to pressure. The spent pomades are
used for toilet purposes and in the
manufacture of fine soaps. The
process of preparing perfumed
oils involves the same principle, except
that instead of solid grease, superfne
olive oil is used. With this oil pieces
of coarse cotton fabric are saturated,
which are then spread upon wire net
ting stretched in wooden frames about
three feet by four feet in size. The
flowers are spread upon the saturated
cloths, and the frames piled one above
the other, so that the perfume of the
flowers is absorbed as in the previous
process. Essences and .'hower waters"
are produced by ordinary distillation,
in which the flowers are boiled with
water in large alembics. The vapor
carries off the perfume, and is con-
densed in adjoining copper tanks, like
ordinary spirits. Some of the retorts
used for this purpose are of sufficient
size to receive at once half ton of
fresh flowers with the requisite water
for their distillation. When Flower
| waters" are to be produced alcohol is
/ used in the distilling tank to receive
the perfumes. BY skillful eombina-
tions of the perfumes of different flow
ers, sometimes with the addition OF
chemicals, large variety of handker-
chief extracts, such as ''Patchouli,' y
'tJoekey Club, ''West End" etc., are
produced. Chambers Journal
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-08-11
The Mice.Skin Market.

The story goes that the fur-runner
has one section of Maine in which his
appearance on fur-buying trip is an
event. About every bou.,' sells to him.
and he hasn't made many mistakes in
his buying. He cultivates this section.
He saves his best Jokes and his fun
niest stories for this locality. Hence
his grip is good and he don't want to
lose it.
1t was after a successful expedition
into this section recently that the fur
runner fell talking. Now, there is
danger when a man falls talking,
and on this day in question the peltry
king told yarns and talked about furs
and how money could be made and
lost in them. Said he to the listeners:
''Why don't you save up some mice
skins! The market is big on mice.
They are worth, lemme see-they are
worth about $40 hundred" and then
he smiled complacently as a man
spoke up and said: .'B' gosh, is that a
fact? Well. now, YOU bet we could
get bushel on EN- in week If we
was a mind to-" 1t was only Just q sort
I of joke, and he went away forgetting
to remove the impression.
~S' 90 A-AOAANAAo R@oSCo anu nC W Cl y
back again, bargaining and buying.
He had traded for a good many furs
when, in the course of the trade, the
seller said: 1.-THE boys has got lots
of mice skins for you" The buyer
looked wonderingly, and then up out
of the past came the vision of his pre-
vious iniquity. They have, have
they?" replied he. eWell, I don't
know, exactly. Did / say I'd take
emf That's what you said," was the
reply. ''Ten dollars hundred, and
the boys had about two hundred Of
| 'em."
| 1t was a sad fact. The Industrious
boys had fully that number of mice
skins stretched on boards. The. buyer
had to invent something, and so he
said that the market had dropped of
over three-quarters since he was here
before, and he ended by settling with
the boys for S. bill. 1t would never
have done to have declined them, for
that might have spoiled the trade on
| more sizable and more marketable
pelts in that vicinity foreyer.-Leaois.
ton Journal
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Old Virginia Corn Pones.

Sho. yeh needn't tell me muffin bout yeh
cakes and yeh pies.
Kase Use made 'em fo' de light you ebeI
see;
De omlecks and de Salads and dc creams am
mighty fine.
But dere's muffin like de cawn-pones for me
Pears like de suns a-shinin' on meh old yir
ginia home,
An de peart birds a-chirpin' in the trees,
An de yello' roses climbin' roun' de pillars OBJ
de po'ch,
An de red poppies burnin' in de breeze.
l kin see see 5n meh deah young mistiss come run
Wild her pooty checks a-glowin' rosy red,
An de sunshine a-kissin' OBJ her leetle sof
An dancin on de brown curls OBJ her head
kin heah her sweet voice callin'. yes. as if ii
To dat lazy nigger Gawge. "whar be-"
Kase she say de "Brompton pepple" am a.
coming up de road,
tea.
'Clar' to goodness, dey'd come troopin' to yo'
Wild How dy, Nanny Liza, how ye beY''
An dey'd split deir sides latin, as they
frowed dc copper cents
10 de piacninnies hangin' roun ter see.
o, de singin' and de dancin' when de yello'
An de cawnfiefs jes like a silber sea:
Wild ole Nose a scrapin' OBJ his fiddle to de
bones,
While Caesar tummed de banjo on his knee.
Lori / done forget meh ole sef in tinkin' OBJ
dose times,
An de folks at Mas'r Alec's dat see;
But de mos hab cross de riber to de shinin'
golden sho',
An de horn'n soon be tootin' up for me.
Den, when meh white souls carried to dat
Dressed shinin sho'
An meh own deah Miss Lucy's face 1 see
reckon dat de heab'nly food dey eats aroun'
de thrones
Gwine ter tas' like angel cawn-pones ter me.
Springfield Republican.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-08-11
Why She Went Back on Him.

!. They were standing in the front
door, and every time he thought of
saying good night his mouth became
paralyzed. Finally she asked: when
are you coming again, Fred?"
Il don't know. Suppose | come
next Wednesday EVENING"
why, you know that Will Baker
has an engagement to call on me that
evening"" she said in a somewhat em-
barrassaed manner.
"Yes. know; that was why / men
toned it. You see viii strained his
arm slightly and the doctor has adj
vised him not to put it to any unneces-
sary exertion. So thought"
Il guess you might as well call We'd
nesday evening"" she said slyly.-Mer-
chant IrdUeler
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-08-11

Mrs. Emmons, the eccentric, an
nounces that she is going to lecture,
like Anna Dickinson and Kate
Field" She describes herself as IAN
attractive woman, just a little natty
and neat, and too-too." She claims to
have been offered $50 a night and ex-
penses, and declares that she will soon
come out like the flowers that bloom
in the spring, tra-lae"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-08-11

Paper doors are coming into use.
and, as compared with those of wood,
possess the advantage of neither shrink
ing, swelling, cracking, nor warping.
They are formed of two thick paper !
boards, stamped and nodded into pam
els, and glazed together with glue and
potash and then rolled through heavy
rollers. After being covered with a
waterproof coating and then with one
that is fire-proof they are painted, VAR
pished, and hung in the usual way, i.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-08-11

Wife (returning from matinee)-
80, it was too lovely. She had on a
pale Nile-green silk, with bands of
passementerie down the front, and the
grandest diamonds you ever saw; and
when she died in the last act she rolled
over four times, and every woman in
the house was crying. l never enjoyed
play so much in my life. ."-Fnrsny
Folks.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-08-11

On an average patents are issued for
two new car-couplings every day in
the year, still accidents resulting in
the loss of life in coupling and detach-
ing cars are as frequent Is ever. -
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-08-11

PUBLIC, Mantua. o. Con-
IN yeyancing, Collections and Pension Busl-
sess promptly attended to on the most reason
able terms. oi.
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1. T. SIDDALL,
Attorney at Law. ONCE in Phenix Block
! Ravenna, Ohio z79
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T. I'll. PHELPS
A. w. BEMAN

A. rrORNEY AND COUNSELLOR Al
IN Law, Oface over BELDING d ARM
6FRoNG's Main ST., Ravenna. Ohio.
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II. Y. LACEY,

IN PUBLIC.
onice with Nj. STUART. North Chestnutst
Ravenna Ohio.
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J. Ell. DUSSELL,
A TTORkNEY AT Law, Counsel in
IA En- glish and German, Office over Fi.:h's
Clothing Store. Phenix Block, Ravenna,
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A. N, FARR,

a tterncF at Law. OFFICE, No. 260S
Broadway aSth w Wardl. Cleveland. Ono. 77s
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p. r. CONANT.

J = Z . ID. WIN 1A4N11
II TTORNEY AT Law, Ravenna, o.
A ONCE in Blackstone Block, North Chest
nut Street. Ravenna. Ohio
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Business Cards.
j. II. NICHOLS.

d H. N IO11OI6s
Attorney at Law and Notary Public. Office
in Phenix Block over Second National Bank,
Rayenna Ohio.
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CD. INGELL.
E wv MAXSON.

TTORNEY AT LAW and Notar
~ Public. Office in over Mrs. Smfrh's Mtiii
er1 store Mantua station. Ohio. 642- IT,
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Attorney and Counselor At Law possesses
sunerior facilities for making collections IN
All parts of the United States. once over
First National Bank, Garrettsville, ONO.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1887-06-11
BellepOiIlt.

Mrs. DR.. Sullivan is on a visit to
her fathers family in Eminence.
Mrs. Keeling Gaines has gone
on a visit to her daughter in Madi-
son county.
w. S. Clarke has moved into
the east end Of the double cottage
on Benson street.
The poll has been taken, and
Bellepoint is solid for the railroad,
with one exception.
Large numbers Of our citizens
attend nightly the meetings of the
Salvation Amy.
F. p. Lewis is doing lucrative
business in life insurance. He is
the agent for the Provident.
The pretty Miss Emma Graham,
of South Frankfort, has been the
guest of the Misses Merchant dur.
ing the past week.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1887-06-11

line Of the road their profits would
not have been so large.
This is not only true in Min
nesota. but it is true in Kentucky,
and it is true Of all kinds Of pro-
duce. know that it is a matter
Of impossibility for the farmers to
carry their farms to the railroad
now travcrsing Franklin county,
but it is "a duty they owe to
themselves and to their children
and to their children's children,
that they bring the railroads as
near as possible to their lands.
A saving Of one cent per bushel
per mile on wheat, and on all
other produce in proportion, is no
mean consideration. and could all
moneys that may be saved to
Franklin county farmers in
freights, by the building Of the
proposed railroad, be boarded up
through three generations and
given to the fourth. the grand
total would be something tremen-
dous. BY an air line the coal,
iron. and timber supply in East
err Kentucky is as near Frankfort
to-day Gin miles, as it will ever be.
We all know, or ought to know,
that competition is the life Of
trade" and that "time is money"
If you can not shorten the miles
between Frankfort I'D the home
of these great staple articles,
which you so much require, you
can shorten the time ("time saved
is money made') between the two
points. and reduce existing freight
rates by building and equipping
the proposed road.
This road will bring prosperity
to the entire county, and the sure
and happy effect of the enterprise
will be felt by every man in the
county, whether he owns any
property or not. They who own
most will be most benefited. by
reason of the appreciation in value
it will bring to their property, and
yet, the poorest man in Franklin
county, outside of the poor-house,
will be benefited, for he must
protect his body with clothing,
and what the merchant saves in
freight on the clothes he wears,
will be to his benefit in a reduced
price on the article. There is not
a mechanic or laboring man in the
town or county, who would not
be more than blessed by the build
ng Of this road, and if they could
20 with me to-day, through the
streets of this city, and see the
of men who are engaged
upon the public improvements be-
ng made here, they would not
wonder at the great growth and
prosperity which has come to this
place
If you love your homes and
would see the old town manu-
acturing centre Of some import,
nee, rather than mere station
IN the l.. & N. X. R., vote and
work for the building Of the new
Dad, and show the world that
here is some ambition and spirit
n the men of Kentucky as we'll as
n her horses. 1t is in no other
han the kindliest spirit that | use
he above words. All l write is
prompted by strong desire to see
he home Of my childhood the
home of industry; to see my
riends and relatives there blessed,
IS only those who are blessed who
improve the talents which have
,een intrusted to them.
ROBT. B. FRANKLIN.
Be1lepOiIlt.
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Trouble Ahead.

When the appetite fails, and sleep grows
restless and unretreshing, there IL trouble
ahead. The digestive organs, when healthy,
crave food; the nervous system, when vigor-
GUS and tranquil, gives Its possessor no un.
easiness ut night. A tonic, to be effective,
nerves to be strengthened and sOothed by the
unaided action OF sedative or narcotic.
What Is required Is q medicine which tnyig-
crates the stomach, and promotes assimila-
the nervous system, Is web as other parts Of
the physical organism, are strengthened.
These are the effects Of Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters, 0 medicine whose reputation is
which physicians commend for ats tonic, an.
ti-biliOus aud other properties. 1t Is used
with the best results In fever and ague, theu:
matism, kidney aud uterine weakness, and
ether maladies.